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The Who's Who of Zen BuddhismFri, 24 Jul 2015 12:00:39 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3One hundred and eleven years ago today, Shunryu Suzuki was bornhttp://sweepingzen.com/one-hundred-and-eleven-years-ago-today-shunryu-suzuki-was-born/
http://sweepingzen.com/one-hundred-and-eleven-years-ago-today-shunryu-suzuki-was-born/#commentsMon, 18 May 2015 14:34:10 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=103099Our mind should be free from traces of the past, just like the flowers of spring. High winds blew across the green hillside, driving rain into the storm doors of Shoganji, an obscure Japanese country temple, when on May 18, 1904, Yone Suzuki gave birth to a baby boy. Her husband, Sogaku, the priest of ...

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/one-hundred-and-eleven-years-ago-today-shunryu-suzuki-was-born/feed/1Remembering Daigan Lueck: Painter, poet, monkhttp://sweepingzen.com/obituary-for-daigan-lueck/
http://sweepingzen.com/obituary-for-daigan-lueck/#commentsTue, 28 Apr 2015 19:42:02 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=101460Daigan Lueck was born in Minneapolis in 1931. He served as a medic in the U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict and remained in Asia for some years, living in Japan. He was married twice to Japanese women named Michiko. He has a son, Chris, and a granddaughter, Anna, who is a freshman at Middlebury ...

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/obituary-for-daigan-lueck/feed/0Zenshin Tim Buckley Dies: One Heartbeat, Ten Thousand Buddhashttp://sweepingzen.com/zenshin-tim-buckley-dies-one-heartbeat-ten-thousand-buddhas/
http://sweepingzen.com/zenshin-tim-buckley-dies-one-heartbeat-ten-thousand-buddhas/#commentsFri, 17 Apr 2015 19:31:21 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=100680Zenshin Tim Buckley, a Zen priest affiliated with the San Francisco Zen Center system and the teacher at Great River Zendo near West Bath, Maine, died yesterday. Zenshin was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer last August and since then has been nobly undertaking his departure in an upright and inspiring manner. The last time ...

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/zenshin-tim-buckley-dies-one-heartbeat-ten-thousand-buddhas/feed/0Zenshin Tim Buckley dies at 72 of lung cancerhttp://sweepingzen.com/zenshin-tim-buckley-dies-at-72-of-lung-cancer/
http://sweepingzen.com/zenshin-tim-buckley-dies-at-72-of-lung-cancer/#commentsFri, 17 Apr 2015 00:43:45 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=100522Zenshin Tim Buckley, founder and teacher at Great River Zendo in West Bath, Maine, passed away today at 72 years due to lung cancer. He was a student of Yozen Peter Schneider in California and in 2014 received transmission of the dharma from him. He was one of the early guys at San Francisco Zen ...

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/zenshin-tim-buckley-dies-at-72-of-lung-cancer/feed/2Missing Kyogen Carlson and His Dharmahttp://sweepingzen.com/missing-kyogen-carlson-and-his-dharma/
http://sweepingzen.com/missing-kyogen-carlson-and-his-dharma/#commentsTue, 10 Mar 2015 02:11:45 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=99873At my Zen Center last Sunday we read and discussed a beautiful teaching from Kyogen Carlson, one of my Zen teachers. It was from the chapter “Dharma Realm” in a little booklet Kyogen wrote called Zen Roots. I called this excerpt “Kyogen Carlson on the Cosmic Buddha.” We lost Kyogen suddenly last September to a heart ...

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/missing-kyogen-carlson-and-his-dharma/feed/0Kyogen Carlson: A Brief Remembering of a Zen Masterhttp://sweepingzen.com/kyogen-carlson-a-brief-remembering-of-a-zen-master/
http://sweepingzen.com/kyogen-carlson-a-brief-remembering-of-a-zen-master/#commentsFri, 19 Sep 2014 05:07:24 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=99436The following piece, by James Ishmael Ford, originally appeared at: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/monkeymind/2014/09/kyogen-carlson-a-brief-remembering-of-a-zen-master.html I was shocked to learn that Kyogen Carlson suffered a massive heart attack and died today. Kyogen was, I wrote “is” at first, and had to correct myself, one of the senior Zen teachers in North America, respected and loved across the continent. And ...

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/kyogen-carlson-a-brief-remembering-of-a-zen-master/feed/0Eight Ways GUDO WAFU NISHIJIMA Will Help Change ZEN BUDDHISMhttp://sweepingzen.com/eight-ways-gudo-wafu-nishijima-will-help-change-zen-buddhism/
http://sweepingzen.com/eight-ways-gudo-wafu-nishijima-will-help-change-zen-buddhism/#commentsSat, 08 Mar 2014 01:01:15 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=98174My Teacher, GUDO WAFU NISHIJIMA ROSHI, died this month, age 94. In manner, he was a soft spoken, gentle, conservative man of his times, born nearly a century ago in Taisho era Japan. In action, he was a perceptive visionary of the future of Buddhism, a great critic of the state of Zen in modern ...

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/eight-ways-gudo-wafu-nishijima-will-help-change-zen-buddhism/feed/13Dear Gudo Nishijima Roshihttp://sweepingzen.com/dear-gudo-nishijima-roshi/
http://sweepingzen.com/dear-gudo-nishijima-roshi/#commentsMon, 03 Feb 2014 00:30:36 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=96331I recently returned home from our Sunday zazenkai here in Umeå in the north of Sweden. Everything is white outside my window and snowflakes keep falling from the sky — unimaginable numbers of them, somehow falling one at a time. These last few days they all have seemed to fall a little bit slower than ...

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/dear-gudo-nishijima-roshi/feed/1Nishijima is Dead, Are You More Alive Than He?http://sweepingzen.com/nishijima-is-dead-are-you-more-alive-than-he/
http://sweepingzen.com/nishijima-is-dead-are-you-more-alive-than-he/#commentsSat, 01 Feb 2014 13:44:20 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=101251I almost didn’t come to zazen today. I had considered going to Santa Monica where Brad Warner’s group is having zazen as they always do at 10 o’clock, to be followed by a memorial service for his master, Gudo Nishijima, who died earlier this week. I never knew Nishijima, but he was a contemporary of ...

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/nishijima-is-dead-are-you-more-alive-than-he/feed/0Floating Onward: Honoring Venerable Bhante Suhita Dharmahttp://sweepingzen.com/floating-onward-honoring-venerable-bhante-suhita-dharma/
http://sweepingzen.com/floating-onward-honoring-venerable-bhante-suhita-dharma/#commentsSat, 25 Jan 2014 19:04:54 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=95365The following article by Mushim Patricia Ikeda was published with the Buddhist Peace Fellowship in December, shortly after the death of Venerable Bhante Suhita Dharma. Mushim wanted to provide the following preface to the original article that was published to include information about his Zen training, as well: Note to readers of Sweeping Zen: Ven. Bhante ...

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/floating-onward-honoring-venerable-bhante-suhita-dharma/feed/2Recalling Nichidatsu Fujiihttp://sweepingzen.com/recalling-nichidatsu-fujii/
http://sweepingzen.com/recalling-nichidatsu-fujii/#commentsSat, 18 Jan 2014 20:06:23 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=94540In 1982, I was one of a small group of Zen students who were invited to an audience with Nichidatsu Fujii. Guruji, as he was affectionately known, was making a short visit to Los Angeles on his way back to Japan following that spring’s historic nuclear disarmament activities in New York, which he and his ...

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/recalling-nichidatsu-fujii/feed/1My Colleague Myogen Steve Stücky and Why I Love Zenhttp://sweepingzen.com/colleague-myogen-steve-stucky-love-zen/
http://sweepingzen.com/colleague-myogen-steve-stucky-love-zen/#commentsSat, 04 Jan 2014 01:49:02 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=90391I have written before of Zen’s need to squarely face institutional inadequacies, but have I said enough about why I love Zen? I don’t love Zen for the robes and the folderol; I love it for where the rubber meets the road. Where one hand reaches out for another, and where one stands quietly witnessing ...

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/colleague-myogen-steve-stucky-love-zen/feed/2Genki Takabayashi Eulogyhttp://sweepingzen.com/genki-takabayashi-eulogy/
http://sweepingzen.com/genki-takabayashi-eulogy/#commentsTue, 23 Apr 2013 16:15:09 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=84565Photo by Brian Erbach This piece is a reprise of remarks I gave at the 49th Memorial Day Celebration, April 14th, for Rev. Genki Takabayashi, the retired founding abbot of the Dai Bai Zan Cho Bo Zen Temple (Chobo-Ji). Genki died, Feb. 24th, at his home in Victor Montana, with his wife Leslie Gannon at ...

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/my-lost-teacher/feed/3A Cracked Bowl: The Zen Teachings of Genki Takabayashihttp://sweepingzen.com/a-cracked-bowl-the-zen-teachings-of-genki-takabayashi/
http://sweepingzen.com/a-cracked-bowl-the-zen-teachings-of-genki-takabayashi/#commentsTue, 26 Feb 2013 11:58:59 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=81711Muho Genki Takabayashi Roshi departed this life on Sunday, February 24th, 2013. He was 81 years old and died from the complications of an automobile accident and congestive heart failure. He lived in retirement in Victor, Montana and is survived by his wife, Genei Leslie Gannon. Genki Roshi was my first Zen teacher. He was ...

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/a-cracked-bowl-the-zen-teachings-of-genki-takabayashi/feed/31To Joshu Sasaki Roshi: Roshi You Are a Sexual Abuserhttp://sweepingzen.com/to-joshu-sasaki-roshi-roshi-you-are-a-sexual-abuser/
http://sweepingzen.com/to-joshu-sasaki-roshi-roshi-you-are-a-sexual-abuser/#commentsTue, 26 Feb 2013 04:26:09 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=81670In Memory of Chizuko Karen Joy Tasaka (1951-2010) To Joshu Sasaki Roshi: Roshi You Are a Sexual Abuser Because Chizuko Karen Joy Tasaka did not live to see the Rinzai-ji community acknowledge the sexual abuse she described in her poetry, I felt it was especially important to give voice to her poem of vivid accusations ...